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Dr. YUSTA WILSON SIMWITA

Senior Lecturer

University of Dar es Salaam Business School

General Management

Biography

Yusta Wilson Simwita is a highly experienced lecturer at University of Dar es salaam, where she has been since 2011. She received her Bachelor of Commerce and Management (in accounting) from Dar es Salaam University in 2007. In 2009 she received her certified public accounting certificate from National Board of Accounting and Auditors (NBAA) in Tanzania.

 She received her Master of Science in supply chain from MoldeUniversity of Norway in 2011. She received her Ph.D. in Healthcare logistics from the same Molde University in 2017. From 2007 to 2009 she worked at National Bank of Commerce (NBC) in Dar es Salaam, as a sales agent in the treasury department.

 

 

Research Interest

  1. Health care supply chain management
  2. Procurement management
  3. Business process analysis
  4. Business logistics management
  5. Lean and Agile
  6. Simulation modeling

                                                                            

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Projects

  1. Lean thinking in Medicines Supply Chains: Applicability and Success Factors (ARC project),
  2. Determinants of supply chain resilience and its effects on vaccines availability (UDSM project)
  3. investigation on sustainability orientation among Supply Chain and Logistics University graduates in Tanzania (LEED project).

Publications

Kessy, S.S.A., Salema, G.L. and Simwita, Y. (2024), "Lean thinking in medical commodities supply chains: applicability and success factors for Tanzanian health supply chains “Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management  14 (1) 105-117.

 

Simwita, Y. & Salema, G., (2023) Systematic Assessment of the Literature on Healthcare Supply Chain Sustainability Practices and Methodological Trends. Business Management Review 26(2), 53-72

 

Simwita, Y. W. (2023). Improving Patient Experience In Healthcare Processes: Discrete Event Simulation-based Approach. Tanzania Journal for Population Studies and Development, 30(2), 82–96.

Simwita, Y. W. (2022). Determinants of Collective Marketing Agents’ Performance: An Empirical Study of Smallholders’ Collective Marketing with Evidence from Malawi Tobacco Growers. ORSEA

Journal, 12(1).39-57

 

Simwita.Y.W. &Helgheim, B. (2022) Application of Agile and Simulation Approaches for the Maximal Benefits of Reduced Turnaround Time from the Point of Care Testing

. Tanzania Journal of Science, 49(2),468-478.

 

Simwita, W.Y, & Helgheim, B, I. (2016). Improving surgeon utilization in an orthopedic department using simulation modelling. Journal of Healthcare Leadership. 8, 41-50.

 

Simwita, W.Y, & Helgheim, B, I. (2016). Simulation analysis of resource flexibility on healthcare processes. Journal of Multidisciplinary healthcare 9, 519-528